broadband through sky dish

I see various companies are offering broadband thorugh your existing sky
dish. Is this for real? Or a marketing ploy to get me to buy a new giant
dish ?
I want an inexpensive way to utilise my sky dish and get adsl, hoping this
is the answer.

On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 13:01:49 +0000 (UTC), "Beck"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I see various companies are offering broadband thorugh your existing sky
>dish. Is this for real? Or a marketing ploy to get me to buy a new giant
>dish ?

Which are the companies? I'm looking in to broadband very soon.

>I want an inexpensive way to utilise my sky dish and get adsl, hoping this
>is the answer.

I think provided you don't go for BT, AOL or Freeserve the costs are
quite reasonable.

Very few are charging for connection now.

Geoff Lane

http://www.eutelsat.com/satellites/33e_eb.html

think this is what people are talking about.


"Geoff Lane" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 13:01:49 +0000 (UTC), "Beck"
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> >I see various companies are offering broadband thorugh your existing sky
> >dish. Is this for real? Or a marketing ploy to get me to buy a new
giant
> >dish ?
>
> Which are the companies? I'm looking in to broadband very soon.
>
> >I want an inexpensive way to utilise my sky dish and get adsl, hoping
this
> >is the answer.
>
> I think provided you don't go for BT, AOL or Freeserve the costs are
> quite reasonable.
>
> Very few are charging for connection now.
>
> Geoff Lane
>
>

no sorry, its this one. Opensky is the package.

http://www.eutelsat.com/satellites/285e.html


"Geoff Lane" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 13:01:49 +0000 (UTC), "Beck"
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> >I see various companies are offering broadband thorugh your existing sky
> >dish. Is this for real? Or a marketing ploy to get me to buy a new
giant
> >dish ?
>
> Which are the companies? I'm looking in to broadband very soon.
>
> >I want an inexpensive way to utilise my sky dish and get adsl, hoping
this
> >is the answer.
>
> I think provided you don't go for BT, AOL or Freeserve the costs are
> quite reasonable.
>
> Very few are charging for connection now.
>
> Geoff Lane
>
>

In article <bluqul$aqp$(E-Mail Removed)>,
stuartturrell@yahooo!!.co.uk, a.k.a Stuart Turrell says...

> no sorry, its this one. Opensky is the package.

Here is even better ...
http://www.eutelsat.net/

"Stuart Turrell" <stuartturrell@yahooo!!.co.uk> wrote in message
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> no sorry, its this one. Opensky is the package.
>
> http://www.eutelsat.com/satellites/285e.html

Just looking at that Opensky. I dont think it works with the sky minidish.
From what I can tell, the dish needs to be 60cm diameter, and I think the
sky dish is 40 something. This needs investigating further, thanks :-)

"Beck" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
> "Stuart Turrell" <stuartturrell@yahooo!!.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:bluqul$aqp$(E-Mail Removed)...
> > no sorry, its this one. Opensky is the package.
> >
> > http://www.eutelsat.com/satellites/285e.html
>
> Just looking at that Opensky. I dont think it works with the sky
minidish.
> From what I can tell, the dish needs to be 60cm diameter, and I think the
> sky dish is 40 something. This needs investigating further, thanks :-)

Perahaps it would would with a no longer used sky analogue dish@?

Sam
>
>


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"TX2" <tx2newscollection-invalid-@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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" Here is even better ... http://www.eutelsat.net/ "


On any internet connection, you still need to upload data in order to
download data. The dish can only take incoming data, so therefore you need a
parallel connection to a telephone line for it to work anyway, otherwise,
your PC won't be able to confirm the packets that have been received. Even
by maxing out a 56kbps modem uplink, you would still see some lag in
particular areas of use, and it wouldn't be much good for online gaming,
where uplink speed is just as important as download speed.

"Cuzman" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "TX2" <tx2newscollection-invalid-@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> On any internet connection, you still need to upload data in order to
> download data. The dish can only take incoming data, so therefore you need
a
> parallel connection to a telephone line for it to work anyway, otherwise,
> your PC won't be able to confirm the packets that have been received.
Even
> by maxing out a 56kbps modem uplink, you would still see some lag in
> particular areas of use, and it wouldn't be much good for online gaming,
> where uplink speed is just as important as download speed.
>
Not to mention the delay the satellite roundtrip imposes.

On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 18:06, "Beck" wrote:

>From what I can tell, the dish needs to be 60cm diameter, and I think the
>sky dish is 40 something. This needs investigating further, thanks :-)

I have a couple of spare 60cm in my garage, but the 80cm and Sky digital
ones are still in use. If you even need a 60cm it is free for you :-)